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BULATS Reading and Language Knowledge – Task Type 3 - Multiple Choice – longer texts
(Found in Part 1 Section 3 and Part 2 Section 5)
Task Description
What sort of material do candidates read?
- A longer business-related text, such as a newspaper or magazine article.
- Part 1 Section 3 covers Levels 1-3.
- Part 2 Section 5 covers Levels 3-5.
What do the candidates have to do?
- Candidates must choose the right answers to 6 multiple choice questions on each text.
- In Part 1 Section 3 each question has 3 options. In Part 2 Section 5 each question has 4 options.
What skill is being assessed?
- reading for gist and specific information
Understanding the Task
To understand better how candidates need to approach this task, it may help you to do the activity yourself and analyse what you had to do to find the right answer.
Look at this sample Task Type 3 task from a past BULATS Reading and Language Knowledge paper. Complete the task, thinking about how you are doing it.
Sample Task Type 3 Task
Answers
Things to consider
Now look at these questions about how you approached the task and consider your answers.
- How did you select your answer?
a) I read part of the text, then looked at the question and chose the best answer.
b) I read the questions first, then the text and selected the best answer by elimination.
- In the second example, did you read the two paragraphs before you looked at the questions?
- In the second example, did the questions come in the same order as the information in the text?
- Did finding the answer to each question involve finding a single word or a single phrase in the text?
- Do the questions refer to factual information in the text?
- Could more than one of the options be true according to the text?
- Did you underline the key words in the questions or text?
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